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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
How does a phone get "blacklisted"? By blacklisted I mean that you can't make calls, text, can't get reception, it's like your carrier completely cut you off, your phone is basically useless at this point. The only thing you can use is WiFi.. It happened to me last year(?) when a "beta" or early access factory image of Marshmallow came out, I couldn't wait for the OTA update to come so I decided to flash it like a stupid person. And then I noticed that my phone was blacklisted, I had to buy a new phone.

Right now I'm thinking about flashing a ROM, and I don't want my phone to get blacklisted again. What are the chances? I do have like 4 nandroid backups. So if it does get blacklisted, I can recover the nandroid of when it was not blacklisted and it would still work right?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Blacklisting is based on the phone imei. Flashing or reflashing ROMs will not and should not change the imei so the phone will remain blacklisted until it is removed from the carrier blacklist.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
I didn't really understand that part in red, I understood everything before that.. And would a nandroid backup store(?) the imei?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Let's say I lose my phone. I call my carrier, report it stolen, the carrier adds the phone imei to the blacklist so it cannot be used with any carrier in North America. Let's say someone finds the phone and returns it to me. I then call my carrier, tell them I have the phone in my possession, and my carrier will remove the phone imei from the blacklist so can now use the phone in North America.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
So if my phone ever gets blacklisted again from doing stupid things like flashing stuff without knowledge, I can call my carrier and tell them to remove my phones imei from the blacklist?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Flashing a rom to a phone does not blacklist a phone because flashing does not change the imei. The phone gets blacklisted if it is reported as lost, stolen, or possibly when a subscriber does not pay his or her cell phone bill.

The phone you flashed was a phone you purchased from a carrier or retailer?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kzeran:
I think he formated his imei folder.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
I bought the phone from a carrier.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
Where is it stored?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Is the imei you get by dialling *#06# the same number according to the box and back cover of the phone?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kzeran:
If you don't see your imei by dialing *#06# and without backup , you're ****ed
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
If the phone does not display the correct imei and says null or a bunch of zeros, the phone is not connecting to your carrier because the imei is wrong, not because the phone is blacklisted.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
#06# doesn't do anything. It says "USSD running code..." and that's it, doesn't show anything after that. Sometimes it says "Connection problem or invalid MMI code"
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
Did you compare the phone imei to the national blacklist database?

Looks like the phone does not have a valid imei; therefore, it cannot be activated with any carrier and may have nothing to do with blacklisting.

Since you bought the phone from a carrier, you are the only one that can have it blacklisted through the carrier from whom you purchased the phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
So you're saying that my phone can't get blacklisted?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
For this discussion, there are two reasons a phone will be barred from connecting to a carrier network:

1) The owner calls in to the carrier and reports the phone as lost or stolen and the carrier will add the phone imei to the national blacklist; or

2) the phone has a missing or invalid imei.

Since you purchased the phone from your carrier, only you should be able to have the phone blacklisted by your carrier.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
Oh okay.

So for confirmation, I can go ahead and flash a ROM without worrying of messing up the imei? And possibly some future versions of Android since I'm rooted and can't install OTA's.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] audit13:
I have works with several Samsung nexus, and Motorola phones and I have never had an imei become corrupted because I flashed a stock or custom rom.

Maybe you wiped something that should not have been wiped?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CableStone:
Yeah maybe, to be honest I was pretty careless of the flash when I did it. I just wanted to get the update fast.

Thank you for your help, extremely helpful :good: :cyclops:
[Thinkpad Tablet General] fruen1:
I'm trying to figure out how to install the exposed framework on Yoga Tablet 2 Pro with Lollipop - can anyone point me in the right direction?
[Thinkpad Tablet General] staircrew:
Hi ! Try to have a look to this : http://xdaforums.com/xposed/official-xposed-lollipop-t3030118.

It looks even eaisier than when i dit it myself..
[Zenfone 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ziriguidum:
I wake up and my zenfone was in 26% and plug recharger but it dont start. the led also dont turn on. I power off and enter in recovery. After tris i enter in fastboot. Restart fastboot and try to power on. now it show only usb logo and in few secds turn off again. I try to enter in fastboot & recovery many times. Search on web about this but the logo usb always shows. I've try to enter in fastboot and use adb sideload comands but always says <device not found> like not plugged. Now my zen5 have full discharged. Whrn i try power on always show empty battery logo and restart. Sometimes got logo with 1% (like when start recharge ) but it fast power off and stay on bug of batery empty and restarting. Somebody can give help? :(
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crisdotti:
Who is the best?

original rom 4.4.2

or

cyanogenmod

:confused::confused::confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trafalgar Square:
Hello and thank you for using Q/A,

if you want a pure debloated Android, you need CyanogenMod or any other AOSP based ROM.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crisdotti:
thanks
[XDA Assist] curso 5.0:
Olá, não sei se é o local apropriado, porem, devido a tantas pesquias frustradas, levei em conta que aqui pode estar alguém especializado para pelo menos me da uma noticia, se o celular ainda tem como recuperar.

A uns dias, ele parou de funcionar, e então entrou no modo LOOP INFINITO ou Brickado.

Não reconhece o cabo usb, já tentei vários tutoriais no youtube, e em outros fóruns de sites renomados, mais todas as noticias, é que o celular não funcionará mais. Porem ainda resta aqui no XDA para alguém me da uma noticias.

Bom o celular é o LG L90 - D410 dual chip.

espero que tenha uma solução, obrigado!
[XDA Assist] v7:
Hello,

XDA doesn't encourage posting in languages other than English.Please translate your post so that I can help you :)

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[HTC Excalibur] 73ch13:
Okay.. anyone who wants to, can make fun of me for this. I upgraded my nice, factory unlocked, S620 from WM5 to WM6 -without- backing up the ROM (found out later someone posted on here that Sprite Backup can backup ROM's too). :( Now, I want to go back to WM5. I don't much like the increase in memory leaks that WM6 has. So the question is.... can anyone help me? I had the original HTC WM5 ROM for the s620 on mine... not the T-mobile one. I'd love to go back. Anyone? PM me if you can.... Thanks!!
[HTC Excalibur] Wyvernskeep:
If anyone has a wm 5 rom i would appreciate one as well

Thank you!
[HTC Excalibur] hoangviet1990:
Help, to me.. :( I need Rom S620 wm5. Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
They are on the sticky, you can find them over there.

On that note, thread closed.
[X Play General] ashwath230:
To all moto x play users around the world!! I would like to say hello first!

The next is that how to get more battery life and performance

First of all, your phone must be rooted(which says unlocked bootloader), the next is a custom rom, I recommend using squid2's Cm13 and his kernel too

Download kernel auditor from play store, then go to cpu in that, then change the governor to lionfish, after that go to gpu then the governor to simple_ondemand, after that, go to I/O scheduler and change the internal storage scheduler to bfq and restart make sure you have turned on the apply in boot option for all those three

Conclusion :

CPU GOVERNOR:lionfish

GPU GOVERNOR:simple_ondemand

I/O SCHEDULER :bfq

Finally thank you all for having a look at my thread

Below are the screenshots, you can have a look at them

And I welcome all kinds of critics and reviews from you people
[X Play General] stevedat:
What is outcome after doing that? Can you give any comparison on it so that people can easily see what changed for better performance. Thabks.
[X Play General] ashwath230:
Thanks for your curiosity in my post! And I would like people to implement the things I have said above in the post, and I request them to give me the poll answers and actually after they do what I have said they won't regret doing that! And actually I am using them and I am experiencing the thrill of using that
[X Play General] XxMikeMasterxX:
Hey hey!

I appreciate you posting this thread, man! Cool setup! Mine is a little different, and I would encourage you to post your setup in my thread: Power Users: Post Your Optimal Setup!. This way we can create a repository of useful setups for different MXP users. I hope you take the time to do so, and thank you for posting!
[X Play General] xpectedme094:
Battery and heating problem

am using squid kernel with DU in my cell .... since from last some days am facing problems such as battery draining and heating problem.

can you help me to solve this ??
[X Play General] Sickaxis79:
Its because of the hispeed_freq that they set to the max 1651MHz. Its causing heating issues because your cpu constantly bumped to the max when you use your phone. Just switch it back to 1113MHz in kernel adiutor to reduce the heating.
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Valantur:
Hi guys,

I need some clarification re: carrier unlocking and how it works.

I recently purchased a carrier unlocked G920T, and I was going to start messing with custom roms/kernels and other goodies. My question is: Will the phone revert back to being carrier locked if I do a factory reset or if I unlock the bootloader and flash custom roms?

I'm not a T-Mobile user, so I can't get another unlock code from them.

Thanks!!
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rakcoon:
Once device is unlocked, it'll stay unlocked.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erik FX8:
Just that whats is the most dev supported from all S4 variants to flash custom roms, and if you know the S5 too, thanks

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3mel:
anything with a Qualcomm SoC is going to have better community support. compare the i9505 (Qualcomm) development forums to the i9500 (exynos) versions...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
The GT-I9505.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eminem4ever:
It's GT-9500 hands down.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyz1988:
I absolutely disagree. The I9500 has an Exynos processor. That means there is no documentation at all for coding. The I9505 has more stable roms because it has documentation for the chip. Also in the future when there are newer version of Android, I9505 will beat the I9500 hands down for custom rom support.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Affirmative. I9500 has too many TouchWiz based ROMs, with a few CM-based ROMs. CM 13 for I9500 is still a big WIP, with not working Camera and SELinux.

Even I don't directly monitor I9505 development forum, from what I see around Q&A thread, I9505 is far way better than I9500 on everything.

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] potolok:
GT-I9505 is the best variant

"Galaxy S 4 i9505 Android Development" - 20 pages on xda

"Galaxy S 4 i9500 Android Development" - 12 pages on xda
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
Are you sure? Mentioning every ROM is the best.

I9505 has 25+ development projects

I9500 has only at least 10 active development projects, 60% are stock-based projects

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Because the Exynos chip plays better with TW roms. Anything else is buggy as hell and gives developers headaches.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krasCGQ:
I even started to think that development on Intel x86(_64) devices are easier than Exynos :laugh:

Sent from my GT-I9500
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erik FX8:
I own two 9505, one from T-Mobile (jfltetmo) and other from Cricket of my sister (i337z), Im using CM 12.1 on the tmobile variant and its fine any complaint at all, but from cricket cant find any CM based roms, even unofficial, and its a Qualcomm

So in terms of specific models what should'nt get?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhoban:
Any I9505 rom should work on the cricket S4.

I recommend getting an unbranded phone.
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
Bought this from Amazon for $35 (it's available from many other sites too) and have been trying to get it to work with Tasker. Finally made some headway so I'd like to share and discuss ideas -

http://www.androidauthority.com/deal-martian-notifier-smartwatch-667537/

having now used it for a couple of weeks, here is my review:

it works pretty well, does what it says on the box very reliably. and i've gotten it setup with Tasker in a way that gives me much greater control over notifications than out of the box. it also gives me 7 days of battery with almost no impact to my phone's battery life

here's what i've done:

- disabled notification access for the Martian App, so it doesn't drain my phone battery

- use Autonotification to intercept notifications for apps i want to get displayed on the watch (mailwise, whatsapp, LINE, sms, hangouts, which i do for my home screen message counter already so it is not incremental to battery drain)

- pull content from the Autonotification intercept, so i get richer (e.g. email body, mail account, sender, reply/delete actions) and more customizable content (rules based on profile, time, sender, message content, etc.) which i can then push to the watch

- simulate a notification for these apps using Tasker to send a shell command targeted only at the watch, which allows control over what icons/vibration patterns are used, even if i don't have these apps installed. also minimizes battery drain on both the watch and phone

- reconfigured the left top button to delete the last read message (high use case incidence) rather than trigger Google Now (which is a low-incidence use case for me). can be easily reconfigured to map to say music controls

- it was somewhat painful to get to this point, since it involved reverse-engineering of the Martian App using apktool, trial and error to find the right intent to trigger the watch's notifications ... so if anyone is interested, just respond and i can share more details

- i'll also want to explore more tweaks using Tasker and the watch, such as remapping the watch's screen tap action, unleashing the accelerometer to send readings to Tasker, using Tasker to send GMaps walking directions, etc ... if anyone has ideas on what is possible or useful let me know
[Other SmartWatches] john1833:
I just got the same watch. Being a novice to Tasker, I would love to know how you have done some of what you explain. I'm particularly interested in seeing more email text being pushed to the watch.
[Other SmartWatches] betarepeating:
Chiming in to say I am very interested. I have this watch and love it. My major complaint thus far is that, as an avid user of hangouts, I find my watch constantly inundated with notifications from hangouts.

Typically I have extended conversations via Hangouts with friends using my desktop computer. When this happens Hangouts understands I have focus on the chat on my PC and will not send notifications to my phone, unless the chat loses focus. Frustratingly my watch does not have this feature so I find my watch buzzes frantically whenever I start up a serious Hangouts chat with someone. The fixes are either to disable notifications for the person in question or put the watch in DND mode. Neither is desirable for obvious reasons - I would still like notifications on my watch when I am not near Google hangouts!

Any ideas on a solution for this? My hackish idea is to buy an NFC tag and write a gasket task to suppress phone notifications (and therefore watch buzzing) when my phone is placed on the NFC tag on my desk (signifying I am near my PC enough to see notifications there).

I'm not sure if there is a more elegant solution.
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
to get more email text, use a notification intercept app like AutoNotification to put the text you want into a variable

then to send this text to the watch, use a Tasker shell command:

am startservice -n com.martianwatches.martianwatchnotifier/com.martianwatches.martianwatchalerts.NotificationSenderService --es "sender" "demo_email" --es "message" "%antitle: %antext"

where %antitle and %antext are fields populated by a Autonotification Notification Intercept Event. if you are familiar with Tasker and sqlite, you can even send text to your watch that is not contained in the notification. (for instance, I use sqlite to pull the full whatsapp message rather than the shortened version that appears in the notification)

the "demo_email" example just gives you the default email icon that is built into the watch's firmware. there are other icons for specifici apps, e.g. fb, whatsapp, instagram .... if you prefer another icon, decompile the Martian apk and look in the NotificationSenderService.java file under /com/martianwatches/martianwatchalerts

note: to get this to work:

- you will need to have the Martian App installed

- you do not need to have the Martian App be able to listen for notifications (since you are essentially simulating a notification being sent to the App using the shell command above). this helps to reduce my battery drain from the Martian App

while this example is just for email, the approach opens up a lot more possibilities for the watch ... which are not restricted by the Martian App's hard-coded features. let me know if this works for you
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
I do have a solution for exactly this problem, but it's a little complicated and highly tailored to how I use my phone, watch, and pc

here's what you'll need to implement my solution:

- Tasker (of course!)

- Eventghost installed on your PC

- Some basic knowledge of Python

- Bluetooth capable PC

- Bluetooth plugin installed on Eventghost

- AutoRemote plugin installed on Eventghost

- AutoRemote installed on phone

- AutoNotification installed on phone

and here's how I am implementing it:

- Eventghost checks for the presence of my phone every 5 mins, returns 1 (detected) or 0 (not detected). If there is a change in status, Evengthost sends a message to phone via AutoRemote with newly updated status

- if I'm near my pc (i.e. my phone is near my pc), AutoRemote sets a Tasker variable WatchStatus=0. If I'm not at my pc, AutoRemote sets WatchStatus=1

- instead of relying on the Martian App to listen for notifications, I use Tasker and AutoNotification to listen for notifications and decide which ones to send to the watch

- therefore if WatchStatus=0, I'm at my pc doing something, and if a Hangouts Notification comes into my phone, I have a Tasker task which checks for WatchStatus=1 before it sends the notification to my watch (using the method described in post #4 above)

- the rules don't need to be the same for each app or notification received, so it is highly customizable. for instance, Tasker can send notifications to the watch even if WatchStatus=0 for priority senders. or, you can set different rules for WatchStatus that do not only depend on bluetooth proxmity of phone vs. PC, such as quiet hours, geolocation, wifi near, etc.

hope this helps!
[Other SmartWatches] StuDB:
Any idea how I can do similar with the SMA-Q Watch? I can get tasker to produce a notification and I have the watch app watching Tasker, but I'd like to send a command like you have here.

I have decompiled the app and I can't seem to get a message sender service to work.

Is there anything specific to look for when trying this for a different watch?

Thanks!
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
it should be possible to do the same thing - in your watch's android app, look in the android manifest for a service that listens for notifications. then, go into the javascipt (.java file in the decomplied app resources) to understand the syntax that the notification service uses to send messages through to the watch. finally replicate that syntax with a shell command from Tasker
[Other SmartWatches] gervil:
Hello, Could you tell me what you did to reconfigure the top button (a short step tutorials ?) ? I was very annoyed it's stuck to using google voice, a thing I never use... Thanks
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
i wrote a tiny app (noob at coding) that listened for the Google Voice Search intent that would then trigger a Tasker task (via an intent). the tasker task I can then configure for different contexts (e.g. driving ,watch connecting/disconnected, music app in foreground, etc.) to trigger different actions depending on context
[Other SmartWatches] smalis:
wyt18, I have the Martian Notifier Watch and the Martian Notifier app installed. The app is connected to the watch and works fine. I am trying to test my ability to send a notification to the watch with Tasker. I am using your shell command, only with the two variables manually set to some random text, so the shell command is:

am startservice -n com.martianwatches.martianwatchnotifier/com.martianwatches.martianwatchalerts.Notification SenderService --es "sender" "demo_email" --es "message" "%Antitle: %Antext"

Tasker runs this fine with root, but the watch does not respond.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
it works for me, you might want to check if you have notification access enabled for the Martian Notifier app, and if regular notifications from the phone to the watch (using the Martian app) work properly
[Other SmartWatches] djthorne:
I don't know if this will be of any help, but I use Tasker to create and quickly cancel a notification to send it to the watch.

So in the Notifier app, tick Tasker. Then create your Task to generate whatever text you want, stored to a variable. Then do a Notify with title %variable, and then a Notify Cancel, title %variable (to quickly remove it from your status bar).

If you want you can then export the task as an app (AppFactory), and then in the Notifier app find that rather than use Tasker as the notifying app.
[Other SmartWatches] smalis:
Thanks, guys. wyt, notification access is indeed enabled for the app, and the app does send normal notifications to the watch with no issue. Not sure why the shell command is not working for me.

As djthorne suggests, I can resort to creating notifications with Tasker and sending them to the watch via the Martian Notifier app. Is there any advantage to using the shell command over doing that, since I can include variables in created notifications?

djthorne, have you tried testing the shell command with your watch?
[Other SmartWatches] djthorne:
I've not tried that, but if I get some time over the weekend I'll have a play and let you know.
[Other SmartWatches] wyt18:
i do it because i think it's more efficient than creating a separate Tasker notification. and you can customize the icon so not all notifications on the watch appear the same